In THE WHISPERS, I played a father, with an amazingly talented actor, Kyle Breitkopf. I've played a dad a lot, so it's nice again to be in that world [in This Is Us].

I'm a homebody. I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.

If you have your mind in the right direction, and your heart is full of the right kind of stuff, you'll succeed and you'll triumph over adversity, over really anything.

You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.

When your a kid,everybody runs around witha red cape-we all wanted to be SUPERMAN or BATMAN.

I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside [...] I'm really a shy guy.

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

I don't want to impose on anyone else and make anyone else emotional or anything. I tend to quietly cry, kind of turn away.

I think that any good storytelling lends itself to closing a chapter but also knowing that there's a few more volumes beyond that to dream off of.

Unless I'm running and yelling, then you really see how crooked my mouth is!

As an actor it's like, go with whatever excites you as an actor. What are you're going to invest yourself in as a character? What are you going to get into? Have a variety of characters to play.

Where do you get dreams like this?

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

I learned much too late that what you called love was nothing but a desperate and irrational fear of a life lived alone.

Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.

I am not made of steel. Rage. I...am made... of RAGE!!!!

Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.

Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

It's the centrality of the Word and not the person who preaches it that's important.